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Operation that killed osama bin laden as a surgical raid, a small commando team fighting its way through the compound. president obama and his security team followed every anxious moment. cnn pentagon correspondent chris lawrence takes us through the operation step by step. >> reporter: the three-storied building built about six years ago. a bin laden protege and his brother lived on the first floor of the main building and another house in the compound. bin laden's family occupied the top two floors of the main billing. unlike other neighbors who took trash out, these people burned theirs ins...

Decision, even though there was some in the national security team pushing back against it, they did not know that osama bin laden was physically present there. they had a very high degree of certainty on the intelligence, we believe that the cia was pushing hard to make that assumption, but that really was -- that was first gutsy decision and then the decision to not bomb the place to smithereens, to actually go in with a commando team so that they could get him and get the intelligence. >> reporter: because the risk of doing the commando team, if it didn't work is the -- and if bin laden was...

Bagram air force base. they identified him. his name was joseph klaus. and klaus, in fact, had identified himself. he had given public interviews saying he was the interrogator at bagram who questioned omar khadr but for that reason because the reporters were excluded for publishing what was public information. there's just so much around here. i mean, to me among the most absurd, surreal aspects is all the restrictions on what you can take pictures of. you can't take pictures of the coastline here at guantanamo. there's a courtroom right behind me that we are barred from showing to you. there...

Bagram air force base. they identified him. his name was joseph klaus. and klaus in fact had identified himself. he had given public interviews saying he was the interrogator at bagram who questioned omar khadr but for that reason because the reporters were excluded for publishing what was public information. there's just so much around here. to be among the most absurd surreal aspects is all the restrictions on what you can take pictures of. you can't take pictures of the coastline here at guantanamo. there's a courtroom right behind me that they are barred from showing to you. there's barbed...

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